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When developers hear "cloud" and "AI," their first thought is often about cost. "How much will this cost me to learn? Can I build something meaningful without racking up a surprise bill?" Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/introducing-budget-bytes
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Personal AI assistants are transforming how we manage our daily lives—from handling emails and calendars to automating smart homes. However, as these assistants gain more access to our private data, concerns about privacy, data residency, and long-term costs are at an all-time high. By combining Clawdbot with Docker …
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This article was brought to you by Cameron Pavey, draft.dev. Jenkins has served the development community well for over a decade, but it was designed for a different era of software development. Developers who are tired of fighting with plugin compatibility issues, slow builds, and brittle configurations are exploring …
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The Wolverine community fields a lot of questions from people who are moving to Wolverine from their previous MediatR usage. A quite natural response is to try to use Wolverine as a pure drop in replacement for MediatR and even try to use the existing MediatR idioms they’re already used to. However, Wolverine comes …
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NDC London is here, with pre-conference workshops running January 26–27 and the main conference running January 28–30. If you're a .NET or Azure developer, this is the place to be. Whether you want to sharpen your cloud-native skills, get hands-on with AI-powered development, learn from Microsoft engineers, or simply …
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As enterprise customers roll out and govern AI agents through Agent 365, they have been asking for pre canned evals they can run out of the box. They want transparent, reproducible evaluations that reflect their own work in realistic environments, including interoperability, how agents con Link to article: …
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In this post, we discuss how to use AppSync Events as the foundation of a capable, serverless, AI gateway architecture. We explore how it integrates with AWS services for comprehensive coverage of the capabilities offered in AI gateway architectures. Finally, we get you started on your journey with sample code you can …
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This blog post describes how Totogi automates change request processing by partnering with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and using the rapid innovation capabilities of Amazon Bedrock. Link to article: …
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Previously in this series: Agents eventually run out of context. When they do, they crash, and you lose everything mid-task. We’ve been running GPT-5 Codex since Part 1. It scores 0.58 on SWE-bench Verified. We tried Claude Sonnet 4.5 next, which scored 0.6 and ran faster on most tasks. But complex problems hit …
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Once upon a time, there was SAFEARRAY, the representation of an array used by IDispatch and intended for use as a common mechanism for interchange of data between native code and scripting languages such as Visual Basic. You used the SafeArrayCreate function to create one, and a variety of other fu Link to article: …
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We recently showed how to pair OpenCode with Docker Model Runner for a privacy-first, cost-effective AI coding setup. Today, we're bringing the same approach to Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool. This post walks through how to configure Claude Code to use Docker Model Runner, giving you full control over …
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If you’ve ever expanded a complex Unreal Engine variable in Rider’s debugger and had time to contemplate your life choices, this post is for you. We’ve rewritten our expression evaluator, and the results are dramatic: Variable inspection is up to 87 times faster on warm runs and 16 times faster on cold ones. The …
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With each KotlinConf, developers from around the world come together to learn from leading experts, explore the latest industry insights, and engage with the Kotlin community. KotlinConf’25 alone welcomed attendees from over 50 countries. KotlinConf’26 is just a few months away, and we’re excited to introduce the first …
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Join our upcoming IntelliJ IDEA livestream with Daniel Velikanski from Wiz to see how cloud security insights can be brought directly into your JetBrains IDE, helping you detect and address real risks as you code. Date: February 5, 2026 Time: 3:00–4:00 pm UTC REGISTER FOR THE LIVESTREAM Session abstract Developers move …
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The post shows how to implement a step up authorization using the OAuth 2.0 Step Up Authentication Challenge Protocol RFC 9470. The application uses ASP.NET Core to implement the API, the web application and the identity provider. Duende IdentityServer is used to implement the OpenID Connect server standard and also …
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VS Code now supports MCP Apps, enabling AI agents to display interactive UIs for richer developer workflows. Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/giving-agents-a-visual-voice:-mcp-apps-support-in-vs-code
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Customizing Docker Hardened Images In Part 1 and Part 2, we established the baseline. You migrated a service to a Docker Hardened Image (DHI), witnessed the vulnerability count drop to zero, and verified the cryptographic signatures and SLSA provenance that make DHI a compliant foundation. But no matter how secure a …
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Should software engineers create content as a side hustle? After 13 years and a 10-year break, here's the honest truth about what it actually takes. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/01/25/should-software-engineers-create-content-as-a-side-hustle
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Retrieving the character count of a string in .NET has various methods: using Span with Length, Length, or Enumerable.Count(). This article will prove which is the fastest method. Link to article: https://dotnettips.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/string-performance-the-fastest-way-to-get-a-strings-length/
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Verifying Security and Compliance of Docker Hardened Images In Part 1 of this series, we migrated a Node.js service to Docker Hardened Images (DHI) and measured impressive results: 100% vulnerability elimination, 90% package reduction, and 41.5% size decrease. We extracted the SBOM and saw compliance labels for FIPS, …
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